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- 0:00Speaker 1: I Am all In again.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Oh, I guess you.
- 0:17Speaker 1: I Smell pop Culture with Eastern Allen, an iHeartRadio podcast.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Do you smell that? I smell that. That smells like
- 0:25Speaker 1: pop culture? Hi, everybody, my name is Easton Allen. This
- 0:27Speaker 1: is I Smell pop Culture. It is a subsidiary of
- 0:30Speaker 1: the I Am all In podcast here on iHeartRadio. iHeartMedia,
- 0:34Speaker 1: one of eleven productions all that great stuff. You know what,
- 0:36Speaker 1: you love it. Thanks for joining us here. If this
- 0:39Speaker 1: is your first time, first of all, welcome, thanks for listening.
- 0:44Speaker 1: If you open up a podcast app and then you
- 0:46Speaker 1: just kind of close your eyes and scroll and just
- 0:48Speaker 1: play podcast roulette and land wherever you land, Welcome. We're
- 0:52Speaker 1: so happy to have you. Here's what we do here
- 0:55Speaker 1: on Gilmore Girls, the classic show Gilmore Girls. We love it.
- 0:59Speaker 1: They reference pop culture all the time, they cram it
- 1:03Speaker 1: into the script. There's so many per episode. What we
- 1:06Speaker 1: do here on I Smell pop Culture is we take
- 1:09Speaker 1: a big whiff, we smell it. We talk to the
- 1:12Speaker 1: people that are behind these pop culture moments, these icons,
- 1:16Speaker 1: these songs, these movies, these characters. We talk to them
- 1:19Speaker 1: and we find out what makes someone a pop culture reference.
- 1:22Speaker 1: How do you become that. How do you create something
- 1:25Speaker 1: that has such an indelible mark on culture that it
- 1:28Speaker 1: gets referenced in Gilmore Girls? How is that done? That
- 1:31Speaker 1: is what we do here, and this is what we're
- 1:33Speaker 1: doing this week. It's so exciting. We're going back to
- 1:35Speaker 1: season six, episode fourteen. You've been Gilmour remember that episode. So,
- 1:41Speaker 1: Rory's dad, Christopher, is visiting her at Yale. She gave
- 1:46Speaker 1: him a tour. She tells them that she moved in
- 1:48Speaker 1: with Logan. But at the end of the episode, Rory's
- 1:52Speaker 1: talking to Laurai and Laura's trying to pretend that she
- 1:55Speaker 1: doesn't know that Rory and Logan moved in together, but
- 1:58Speaker 1: they're making small talk. She Rory tells Laura le I
- 2:02Speaker 1: about how her dad came to visit her, and Rory
- 2:05Speaker 1: says it was nice, he saw the campus, we had dinner,
- 2:07Speaker 1: and Laura I says, oh, how very seventh Heaven of you.
- 2:11Speaker 1: So seventh Heaven. This this is really exciting. We've talked
- 2:14Speaker 1: about this before, but there's a there's an idea in
- 2:17Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls that I kind of love is that it's
- 2:19Speaker 1: such a real show. The world, sorry, the world of
- 2:23Speaker 1: the show is so real. It feels so fleshed out.
- 2:26Speaker 1: This line proves that they are watching Seventh Heaven exists
- 2:31Speaker 1: in the world of Gilmore Girls. They are also on
- 2:33Speaker 1: the WB just like Gilmore Girls. So there there is
- 2:37Speaker 1: a chance that Lauri, Laurel Hy and Rory are sitting
- 2:40Speaker 1: down or watching Seventh Heaven. So Laura said that because
- 2:44Speaker 1: Seventh Heaven is a very wholesome show. It's it's family values,
- 2:48Speaker 1: it's a it's a very uh, you know, a tender
- 2:51Speaker 1: loving show, and it's very wholesome that Rory took her
- 2:55Speaker 1: dad around campus. So here's what we're going to do today.
- 2:58Speaker 1: We are going to talk to of the stars of
- 3:01Speaker 1: Seventh Heaven. That's right, the Camden family. We're talking to
- 3:06Speaker 1: Beverly Mitchell, David Gallagher, and Mackenzie Rosman. They played Beverly
- 3:10Speaker 1: played Lucy, David played Simon, and Mackenzie played Ruthie Camden,
- 3:15Speaker 1: all children on the Seventh Heaven Show. It ran for
- 3:18Speaker 1: eleven seasons starting in nineteen ninety six. So wild, there's
- 3:23Speaker 1: so much to get into. They are the coolest people
- 3:26Speaker 1: in the world. They have a podcast also on iHeartRadio.
- 3:28Speaker 1: It's called Catching Up with the Camdens. They're rewatching Seventh
- 3:31Speaker 1: Heaven just like we do here on I am all in,
- 3:35Speaker 1: So if you love Seventh Heaven, you should definitely check
- 3:37Speaker 1: out their podcast. And we're going to talk to them
- 3:39Speaker 1: about being referenced in Gilmore Girls, growing up on a set,
- 3:43Speaker 1: being on one of the most iconic TV shows of
- 3:45Speaker 1: all time. You know, super casual. Let's get into it.
- 3:48Speaker 1: They're here, Hi, everybody, Thanks so much for doing this.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Thank you for having us.
- 3:53Speaker 3: You're very welcome.
- 3:54Speaker 1: So, okay, before we get started here, I want everyone
- 3:57Speaker 1: we were just talking before we began about how this
- 4:00Speaker 1: is theater of the mind, this is an audio medium.
- 4:03Speaker 1: I want there's there's three of you here. This is
- 4:05Speaker 1: the most we've ever had before. I don't want people
- 4:07Speaker 1: to get confused. So I'm going to ask you each
- 4:10Speaker 1: to say your name, your height, and your favorite color
- 4:12Speaker 1: so we can learn your voices. Who wants to go, Beverly,
- 4:17Speaker 1: We'll start with you.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Okay, Well, my name is Beverly Mitchell. I am five one.
- 4:24Speaker 4: And what was the other That sounded like a lie,
- 4:26Speaker 4: didn't it?
- 4:27Speaker 1: Your voice went up.
- 4:29Speaker 3: The knack?
- 4:32Speaker 1: And what's your favorite color?
- 4:34Speaker 2: My favorite color is blue?
- 4:36Speaker 1: All right, great choice? Okay, Dave, you state your name,
- 4:40Speaker 1: height and favorite color.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, I'll slate.
- 4:42Speaker 4: My name is David Gallagher. I am five ten and
- 4:45Speaker 4: my favorite color is purple.
- 4:47Speaker 1: All right, great. And Mackenzie, my name.
- 4:50Speaker 5: Is Mackenzie Rosman and my driver's license says five feet
- 4:53Speaker 5: and my favorite color is blue.
- 4:56Speaker 1: All right, okay, great, Now that that's out of the
- 4:58Speaker 1: way everyone. I hope you listening took notes. There will
- 5:00Speaker 1: be quiz at the end. So the reason we're talking
- 5:04Speaker 1: to you guys today. The connection to Gilmore Girls is
- 5:07Speaker 1: there's a point in Gilmore Girls where Rory is talking
- 5:11Speaker 1: to her mother, Laura Lai, and she says the exact
- 5:16Speaker 1: quote is it was nice he saw the campus, we
- 5:19Speaker 1: had dinner, and then Laura says, oh, how very seventh
- 5:21Speaker 1: Heaven of you? Uh seventh Heaven. Such a such a
- 5:25Speaker 1: wholesome show. That's what everyone loves about It's what we
- 5:27Speaker 1: all remember about it. I want to know when you
- 5:29Speaker 1: guys were on the show, like as children, which we'll
- 5:33Speaker 1: get into, I mean incredibly like really grew up on
- 5:35Speaker 1: this show. How did it feel having that like wholesome
- 5:38Speaker 1: kind of reputation. Did you did you like that? Did
- 5:40Speaker 1: you want to get away from that.
- 5:42Speaker 5: I mean, I think all of us that maybe at
- 5:44Speaker 5: one point wanted to do more sweaty teenager things, probably
- 5:51Speaker 5: on screen, but ultimately I think we were pretty we
- 5:57Speaker 5: were pretty grateful for for what Seventh Heaven was, and.
- 6:03Speaker 6: You know how wonderful it was to shoot.
- 6:05Speaker 7: I think that as much as I may have like
- 6:07Speaker 7: wanted to do like the more risque like Buffy type
- 6:11Speaker 7: shows like that was one not in my nature or
- 6:16Speaker 7: not in my wheel house.
- 6:17Speaker 6: And I think we saw ourselves as much sexier.
- 6:20Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw yeah, but but I.
- 6:23Speaker 7: Think what was cool was being on the WB allowed
- 6:27Speaker 7: us access to all of these other shows. So it
- 6:31Speaker 7: was kind of like a high school where like we
- 6:34Speaker 7: were kind of like one crowd, but we definitely interact
- 6:37Speaker 7: with all the other crowds. So like there were times
- 6:40Speaker 7: where we did do the like kind of like you know,
- 6:43Speaker 7: the dub ABABAWWB like shoots. Those were always fun, and
- 6:47Speaker 7: I think that's that was like just enough. That's all
- 6:49Speaker 7: I needed, was just like one night of like pretending
- 6:51Speaker 7: and then I was like.
- 6:54Speaker 4: Yeah, we I mean, I think, like Max said, all
- 6:58Speaker 4: of us at different points as teenagers and kids, like
- 7:03Speaker 4: felt differently about it over time, there were definitely times
- 7:07Speaker 4: where I, you know, I was envious a bit of
- 7:12Speaker 4: like the cooler, sexier shows and like, you know, the
- 7:15Speaker 4: the work that they got to do and the reputation
- 7:18Speaker 4: that came with being on a kind of show that
- 7:20Speaker 4: was considered cool. But then like you know, our set
- 7:24Speaker 4: was like notoriously easy, friendly, you know, inviting, and uh,
- 7:32Speaker 4: you know, looking back on it, I think we had
- 7:34Speaker 4: one of the one of the best gigs in town.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Really, I definitely agree agree.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Something I really like listening to your podcast, Catching Up
- 7:44Speaker 1: with the Camdens by the way, available on iHeartRadio or
- 7:46Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts, I really see there's like
- 7:50Speaker 1: such a real friendship between you guys, and that's something
- 7:52Speaker 1: that I really love and I think is so cool because,
- 7:55Speaker 1: like you hear stories about some of these shows where
- 7:58Speaker 1: people you know, you don't always get along and things
- 8:01Speaker 1: like that, and like hearing that, like the set, especially
- 8:04Speaker 1: you guys are so young, was such a welcome and
- 8:06Speaker 1: inviting place that so that makes me so happy. First
- 8:09Speaker 1: of all, So, like, what was your relationship like off camera,
- 8:13Speaker 1: especially in those early days, Like, did you guys get
- 8:15Speaker 1: along right away?
- 8:16Speaker 3: Yeah? I think we did, honestly, I mean.
- 8:18Speaker 4: We we all, you know, we spent most of our
- 8:24Speaker 4: days together for for that entire decade, So it's you know,
- 8:29Speaker 4: we we all kind of just grew up together. And
- 8:32Speaker 4: and so in that way, we our friendship was very familial,
- 8:36Speaker 4: you know what I mean, And it's in its tone
- 8:39Speaker 4: and it's and we've kept that. I come from a
- 8:42Speaker 4: big family, so I had that dynamic at home as well.
- 8:46Speaker 3: You know that that.
- 8:48Speaker 4: Kind of like we all love each other, but we
- 8:50Speaker 4: give each other and we we you know, keep each other,
- 8:54Speaker 4: you know, in check kind of a thing. And so
- 8:56Speaker 4: that energy existed on the set between all of us.
- 9:00Speaker 4: And you know, when we were younger that our age
- 9:04Speaker 4: gaps kind of felt bigger than they were. And now
- 9:09Speaker 4: that we're adults, they're gone essentially, So like, you know,
- 9:13Speaker 4: it's I think that in that way again, we're really
- 9:17Speaker 4: lucky that we had we had a set filled with
- 9:19Speaker 4: people that you know, that that were good people.
- 9:25Speaker 7: You know, And I do think that we I do
- 9:29Speaker 7: think it's more than friendship. I think we definitely have
- 9:32Speaker 7: like a family bond and understanding, and what we all
- 9:36Speaker 7: experienced together is something that like nobody else could really
- 9:40Speaker 7: relate to except for those of us who were in it,
- 9:44Speaker 7: so our love and understanding and showing up.
- 9:48Speaker 2: I mean we could like we did. We went for
- 9:50Speaker 2: years kind.
- 9:51Speaker 7: Of losing touch a little bit just because life happened,
- 9:55Speaker 7: and then when you put us all back together, it
- 9:57Speaker 7: was as if we hadn't skipped a day.
- 9:59Speaker 5: But then, like I said, like the age differences were
- 10:02Speaker 5: so great. I mean, most a lot of shows have
- 10:05Speaker 5: you know, most of the cast is relatively the same age.
- 10:07Speaker 5: We were all different ages, so you know, there wasn't
- 10:11Speaker 5: a lot of hanging out after work. But I mean
- 10:14Speaker 5: you and Jesse were closer, but David was trying to
- 10:17Speaker 5: hang out with Barry, but that never really worked out.
- 10:19Speaker 1: It never worked out for me, no, I mean looking
- 10:23Speaker 1: at how old you guys were when you started the show.
- 10:25Speaker 1: I mean, so let me know if I have this right.
- 10:27Speaker 1: David you were eleven years old, Beverly you were fifteen,
- 10:31Speaker 1: and McKenzie you were six years old when you started
- 10:33Speaker 1: seventh seven. Yeah, that is so like the concept of
- 10:39Speaker 1: like being I mean, I cannot imagine being a child actor.
- 10:42Speaker 1: It's just like such a wild way to spend those years,
- 10:46Speaker 1: but like on such a big show, especially like what
- 10:51Speaker 1: how did it feel when the show like really got big, Like,
- 10:56Speaker 1: how did that feel to you? I mean, seeing yourself
- 10:58Speaker 1: on TV?
- 10:58Speaker 2: Was that?
- 10:59Speaker 1: Did that ever? Did you ever get used to that?
- 11:00Speaker 1: I'm so curious.
- 11:01Speaker 6: That's kind of all I knew.
- 11:03Speaker 5: Like, honestly, I was on television before I knew how
- 11:06Speaker 5: television worked, so like, it seems strange that kind of
- 11:10Speaker 5: childhood seems strange to you, but to me, it's like
- 11:14Speaker 5: perfectly normal. And you know, I don't know, but.
- 11:20Speaker 6: It didn't really seem strange at all, honestly.
- 11:22Speaker 5: And I had no really like idea of when the
- 11:25Speaker 5: show was big or when it wasn't, because I was
- 11:27Speaker 5: in my little bubble of.
- 11:31Speaker 6: You know, juvenile whatever.
- 11:37Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
- 11:38Speaker 4: I started working on Seventh Heaven the year that I
- 11:42Speaker 4: my family moved to California. I'm from New York and
- 11:47Speaker 4: I started my career there, so so I had kind
- 11:53Speaker 4: of built up a career already the prior few years.
- 11:57Speaker 4: I had done some film and television and stuff, and
- 11:59Speaker 4: so I was already kind of accustomed to the kind
- 12:06Speaker 4: of life of a child actor and was just very
- 12:10Speaker 4: happy that, you know, our my family's big, risky move
- 12:13Speaker 4: across the country to plant me in the city where
- 12:17Speaker 4: you know, I could possibly take this and run with it,
- 12:22Speaker 4: you know, for the rest of my life paid off
- 12:24Speaker 4: in a serious way. And so, you know, I tell
- 12:30Speaker 4: people all the time, like I was a set kid.
- 12:32Speaker 4: I grew up on sets. So like my childhood. A
- 12:36Speaker 4: lot of people's childhood is filled with memories of school
- 12:41Speaker 4: because that's where you spend you know, ninety percent of
- 12:44Speaker 4: your social time and energy. But ninety percent of my
- 12:47Speaker 4: social time and energy was on sets with adults typically,
- 12:52Speaker 4: So like most of my memories growing up are from sets,
- 12:56Speaker 4: and then I have a few memories from school.
- 12:58Speaker 3: You know, it's like a secondary thing.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Guys, this is so much fun. We have so much
- 13:02Speaker 1: more to get into in the world of Seventh Heaven.
- 13:05Speaker 1: Stick around for me, Okay, we just gotta we gotta
- 13:07Speaker 1: press plan some commercials. This is part of the job.
- 13:10Speaker 1: This is how we make money. So everyone at home
- 13:13Speaker 1: please listen. Maybe there's some goods and services you like.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Who knows. Stick around. We'll be right back. It's I
- 13:27Speaker 1: smell pop culture. We are here with Beverly, David and Mackenzie.
- 13:30Speaker 1: They are the Camden children from Seventh Heaven. They're hanging
- 13:33Speaker 1: out with us. Where'd you Guys film Seventh Heaven. Where
- 13:36Speaker 1: was that shot?
- 13:37Speaker 2: We were in Santa Monica.
- 13:39Speaker 7: Wow, in an old warehouse that was you could hear
- 13:43Speaker 7: the planes from Santa Monica Airport. And we definitely had
- 13:48Speaker 7: leaks in the roof where we trash cans out to
- 13:52Speaker 7: catch water.
- 13:54Speaker 2: So we were not on a fancy lots. We didn't know,
- 13:59Speaker 2: not at all yet, but you know what it was home.
- 14:04Speaker 5: The privacy was nice though. I mean we kind of
- 14:06Speaker 5: had our own compound.
- 14:08Speaker 3: We were in our own world.
- 14:09Speaker 4: Yeah, and we had you know, we had a big
- 14:12Speaker 4: outdoor kind of parking lot back lot area that they
- 14:17Speaker 4: over the years they made the most out of for sure,
- 14:20Speaker 4: like that they had built. Like by the end, we
- 14:24Speaker 4: had our backyard set kind of behind the parking lot.
- 14:27Speaker 4: We had all of our trailers for schooling and our
- 14:31Speaker 4: private trailers.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Then we had a full promenade set.
- 14:34Speaker 4: Which we used for years that they completely custom built,
- 14:37Speaker 4: like between where we ate lunch and where the offices were. Like,
- 14:43Speaker 4: so every every space that we had eventually just got
- 14:46Speaker 4: turned out for the show in one way or another.
- 14:49Speaker 4: And then we had we had two big interior spaces,
- 14:54Speaker 4: our A and B stage. So not only was our
- 14:57Speaker 4: full house set on our sound stage, but we also
- 15:01Speaker 4: had our school set, the hospital set, other homes they
- 15:05Speaker 4: would throw up when they needed, we had the room
- 15:07Speaker 4: for that. We had the pool hall. Like different locations
- 15:12Speaker 4: that we would frequent, they just would put it right
- 15:15Speaker 4: on our sound stage. So oftentimes we were just in
- 15:18Speaker 4: our space, you know. And only in the first few
- 15:23Speaker 4: years did we really spend you know, a decent portion
- 15:26Speaker 4: of our time on location. Really, in the end, everything
- 15:29Speaker 4: had come into our space.
- 15:31Speaker 2: So the only place that never we never built was
- 15:34Speaker 2: the church.
- 15:35Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.
- 15:36Speaker 4: The church was our one mainstay location that we always
- 15:40Speaker 4: went to shoot in in North Hollywood.
- 15:44Speaker 6: We did have Sea Stage also later on.
- 15:47Speaker 3: That's true.
- 15:48Speaker 4: Well, at some point in the end game, we kind
- 15:50Speaker 4: of outgrew our sound stage with how many locations we
- 15:53Speaker 4: were regularly using, so then we ended up getting another. Yeah,
- 15:59Speaker 4: and how many children and home sets we needed and
- 16:02Speaker 4: things for everyone who was growing up on the show.
- 16:06Speaker 6: We stopped it so many was Sea Stage where the
- 16:09Speaker 6: Kinkirks lived.
- 16:11Speaker 1: It was right, yes, and so, and that was on
- 16:14Speaker 1: the compound too, The Sea stage you're talking about.
- 16:16Speaker 2: It was a separate place in Culver City.
- 16:20Speaker 3: I was in Culver City, yet it wasn't too far
- 16:22Speaker 3: away though.
- 16:22Speaker 1: That's so awesome that you just have this like seventh Heaven, Like, uh,
- 16:27Speaker 1: did you have like a fun name for it. It's
- 16:29Speaker 1: like this compound you were you were in in Santa Monica,
- 16:31Speaker 1: was was it called? Like, I don't know, wasn't you
- 16:34Speaker 1: call it Heaven?
- 16:36Speaker 3: I mean, I just know it was just it was
- 16:38Speaker 3: just the set, like it was our set.
- 16:39Speaker 4: But it was like so many people were like, oh, yeah,
- 16:43Speaker 4: where do you guys film?
- 16:44Speaker 3: You guys over at Warner Brothers.
- 16:45Speaker 4: Are you guys down at the but and We're like, no,
- 16:48Speaker 4: we're just we're in Santa Monica.
- 16:50Speaker 2: Just you know, like you weren't just down the road
- 16:54Speaker 2: from Buffy.
- 16:56Speaker 3: Yeah, we had one neighbor that was.
- 16:57Speaker 7: Buffy had one neighbor which is Buffy, and we were
- 17:01Speaker 7: when we started hearing about their hours, we were very
- 17:03Speaker 7: happy to stay on our stage with Arch, with our
- 17:06Speaker 7: row because we were we didn't work. They're what they
- 17:11Speaker 7: put in was and are set so much easier.
- 17:15Speaker 6: Let's face it, there aren't many daytime vampires though, you know. Yeah,
- 17:18Speaker 6: so you.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Know you're signing up for when you enter the world
- 17:22Speaker 1: of the bloodsuckers, you know, yeah, and I do want
- 17:25Speaker 1: to point out this church you guys mentioned in North
- 17:28Speaker 1: Hollywood is the same church from the Office, so any
- 17:30Speaker 1: Office fans out there.
- 17:31Speaker 2: It's also Young Sheldon.
- 17:32Speaker 1: I believe this is a very famous church, a.
- 17:36Speaker 2: Very very popular church.
- 17:38Speaker 3: Yeah. Well it's it's one of the.
- 17:40Speaker 4: Largest traditional looking churches that is that is in kind
- 17:44Speaker 4: of the North Hollywood area.
- 17:46Speaker 3: And uh and.
- 17:47Speaker 4: So obviously a lot of places shoot there, so much
- 17:50Speaker 4: so actually we recently went and visited it, and they
- 17:54Speaker 4: have like light rigging setups permanently in the in the
- 18:01Speaker 4: ceiling area of the all around the building, so like
- 18:04Speaker 4: because so many studios come in and out to shoot,
- 18:07Speaker 4: they just have rigging ready at all times.
- 18:10Speaker 6: Wow, here, please don't break our stuff attached to this.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Such a such a Hollywood church thing to do, that's exactly.
- 18:22Speaker 4: But if that's any indication of how often it's used,
- 18:25Speaker 4: you know, they were so nice.
- 18:27Speaker 6: When we went to visit, though. I enjoy that.
- 18:30Speaker 1: I mean that must be fun for like the people
- 18:32Speaker 1: that are working there now, like like knowing that you
- 18:34Speaker 1: have this like famous church and like, oh my god,
- 18:36Speaker 1: the Seventh Heaven people are coming back. That's gotta be fun.
- 18:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:39Speaker 4: Well, no, one who or maybe I think one person
- 18:43Speaker 4: was there who was still there from from the time
- 18:47Speaker 4: we were there, but most everyone who was you know
- 18:51Speaker 4: in the facility there, you know, working, was not there
- 18:56Speaker 4: when we were there. So so it was kind of like,
- 18:59Speaker 4: you know, this his historical thing about the building that
- 19:01Speaker 4: was coming back for the day.
- 19:03Speaker 8: You know.
- 19:05Speaker 1: So Seventh Heaven premieres in nineteen ninety six, and then
- 19:11Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls was just a few years later, also on
- 19:14Speaker 1: thewwbright any opportunity to say that, I will take do
- 19:21Speaker 1: you guys, do you remember like when Gilmore Girls came,
- 19:24Speaker 1: like when it came out, did you feel like competition
- 19:27Speaker 1: or anything like that. I'm curious what the show, the
- 19:29Speaker 1: WB shows how you felt about each other during that time.
- 19:32Speaker 7: I we loved all the new shows because it was
- 19:35Speaker 7: like more people to get to meet and be friends with.
- 19:37Speaker 7: And I don't I guess I don't think our show
- 19:40Speaker 7: ever felt competition because we also knew we were our
- 19:44Speaker 7: own little we were our own little engine, like we
- 19:47Speaker 7: were we were, to be honest, the show that no
- 19:49Speaker 7: one ever thought was gonna make it. So every year
- 19:52Speaker 7: we were all kind of like, well we might hopefully
- 19:55Speaker 7: I'll see it next year. But like we never knew,
- 19:59Speaker 7: so we always just kind of were just happy to
- 20:02Speaker 7: be there and we were proud to be a part
- 20:06Speaker 7: of everything. But I don't know, I guess I never
- 20:10Speaker 7: felt any competition like amongst any of the shows or
- 20:14Speaker 7: the actors. I think we were all just excited to
- 20:16Speaker 7: hang out and proud and excited that people are making
- 20:19Speaker 7: their dreams come true.
- 20:22Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I agree we were such a unique
- 20:28Speaker 4: show on the WB as a network. I think all
- 20:33Speaker 4: of the competition really was among the other you know,
- 20:36Speaker 4: sexy shows that were doing that thing, and so that
- 20:40Speaker 4: was not something any of us ever felt threatened by
- 20:44Speaker 4: or that we needed to worry about it. We knew
- 20:46Speaker 4: that we were kind of we were the odd egg,
- 20:49Speaker 4: you know, among the shows. So having Gilmore Girls come out,
- 20:53Speaker 4: which was another flavor of family drama, was welcome, you know,
- 21:00Speaker 4: welcome to us because it it maybe made our show
- 21:04Speaker 4: feel less out of place, you know. And I don't
- 21:08Speaker 4: think Gilmore Girls was just like us in any serious way,
- 21:11Speaker 4: but but because it it had a kind of like
- 21:15Speaker 4: that family underpinning to it, maybe it did some heavy
- 21:20Speaker 4: lifting bridging the gap between us and some of the
- 21:23Speaker 4: other shows on the network.
- 21:24Speaker 1: You know, yeah, no, absolutely, it makes a lot of sense.
- 21:28Speaker 1: So you guys ran for eleven seasons, did you you said,
- 21:33Speaker 1: like you kept wondering, like is this the end or
- 21:36Speaker 1: the like? Did you feel like we do the entire
- 21:38Speaker 1: run every year?
- 21:39Speaker 3: We said by every year like we weren't coming back.
- 21:42Speaker 3: It was a joke. At some point.
- 21:44Speaker 4: It was like a we there was no year where
- 21:47Speaker 4: we knew for sure we were coming back first of all,
- 21:50Speaker 4: like but at some point through the middle run, we
- 21:54Speaker 4: knew we were pretty safe, you know, but still we
- 21:58Speaker 4: you know, at that point it was already kind of
- 22:00Speaker 4: a running joke where we were just like, all right, bye,
- 22:02Speaker 4: maybe i'll see.
- 22:02Speaker 3: You next year.
- 22:03Speaker 4: You know, it's been fun, you know, And and we
- 22:06Speaker 4: just did that every year as you know that that
- 22:10Speaker 4: just got like I said, it became our you know,
- 22:12Speaker 4: our running joke. At the end of the season, we
- 22:14Speaker 4: just all said bye, like it was over and uh
- 22:17Speaker 4: and then it wasn't. And even when they said it
- 22:20Speaker 4: was over, because there was a few times where they
- 22:21Speaker 4: said like, yeah, we were probably not coming back next year,
- 22:24Speaker 4: and then we would so like that also yeah multiple.
- 22:29Speaker 7: Times, and I think like yeah, probably, Yeah, it.
- 22:33Speaker 6: Was a lot definitely definitely eleven we didn't think was happening. Yeah, yeah,
- 22:39Speaker 6: that is the most It's right.
- 22:42Speaker 1: It's so wild to think about because it's like it's
- 22:44Speaker 1: one of those like I don't want to I don't
- 22:47Speaker 1: want to blow too much smoke up your ass, but
- 22:48Speaker 1: like Seventh Heaven is one of those shows that's like
- 22:51Speaker 1: like legendary, uh TV dramas, you know, like like it's
- 22:56Speaker 1: everyone has seen Seventh Heaven. Everyone's at least like it
- 22:58Speaker 1: was just always my house was just always on Like
- 23:01Speaker 1: I remember, like I just walked into a room in
- 23:02Speaker 1: Seventh Heaven was just on TV like and uh, it's beloved.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Everyone loves it. I want to ask about how you
- 23:11Speaker 1: look at it now in the future, but first we
- 23:13Speaker 1: have to take a commercial break really quick. Stick around everybody,
- 23:16Speaker 1: it's I Smell pop Culture. It is I Smell pop culture.
- 23:28Speaker 1: My name is Easton Allen. I'm hanging out here with Mackenzie,
- 23:31Speaker 1: Beverly David from Seventh Heaven and they have a podcast,
- 23:37Speaker 1: Catching Up with the Camdens. It's on iHeartRadio. You can
- 23:40Speaker 1: get it wherever you listen to podcasts. You guys are
- 23:42Speaker 1: rewatching the show, how like I hear from so many
- 23:48Speaker 1: people that were on television shows like in the nineties,
- 23:51Speaker 1: and they say like, oh, I never watched it at all,
- 23:54Speaker 1: Like this is our first time if doing a rewatch
- 23:56Speaker 1: podcast or somebody is your first time? Is that the
- 23:58Speaker 1: case for you guys? Had you seen it before before
- 24:00Speaker 1: you do the podcast.
- 24:01Speaker 6: Part parts of it?
- 24:03Speaker 7: I'd seen some episodes, like I think definitely at the beginning,
- 24:07Speaker 7: I was, you know, definitely, because I was like fifteen,
- 24:09Speaker 7: I definitely aired a lot, so I got I was watching,
- 24:12Speaker 7: and we all know.
- 24:13Speaker 2: That David hadn't watched.
- 24:15Speaker 7: So this has all been like a brand new beginning.
- 24:19Speaker 4: Like Beverly, I did watch the show through the first season,
- 24:24Speaker 4: mostly because you know, my family was very excited about it.
- 24:30Speaker 4: But oftentimes I would come back from set and the
- 24:33Speaker 4: show would be on, you know, my family would be
- 24:35Speaker 4: watching it.
- 24:35Speaker 3: When I got home.
- 24:37Speaker 4: I typically had to drive, you know to get home,
- 24:40Speaker 4: so it was, you know, i'd get home, the show
- 24:43Speaker 4: would be halfway through or whatever, and then through the
- 24:47Speaker 4: at some point I fell off watching it, you know,
- 24:50Speaker 4: and so I I when we get to the you know,
- 24:53Speaker 4: the next few seasons, I'm definitely gonna not remember too
- 24:57Speaker 4: much about the speci civis of the episodes, but through
- 25:02Speaker 4: the first season, maybe first two seasons, I definitely watched
- 25:05Speaker 4: a good majority of it with my family.
- 25:07Speaker 1: And so are you rewatching it as adults and in
- 25:11Speaker 1: like twenty twenty five, I mean, how has it been?
- 25:15Speaker 1: Has this been a fun experience? Is it? Is it making?
- 25:18Speaker 1: Is it uncomfortable?
- 25:19Speaker 8: Like?
- 25:19Speaker 1: How is it for you guys watching yourselves that young especially,
- 25:22Speaker 1: it's a little bit of all of.
- 25:24Speaker 3: It, you know, it's I think it's been.
- 25:27Speaker 4: I've been I could say personally, I've been pleasantly surprised
- 25:32Speaker 4: watching it quite a few times with how how well
- 25:37Speaker 4: I think some of it has aged. Some of our
- 25:39Speaker 4: key moments and episodes I think have aged phenomenally well
- 25:43Speaker 4: for how old they were and for my you know,
- 25:47Speaker 4: loose memories of them where I was worried about it,
- 25:50Speaker 4: and then you know, and then obviously there's other moments
- 25:52Speaker 4: that have not aged that well, and and we get
- 25:56Speaker 4: to laugh about that stuff too, you know, like it's funny.
- 25:59Speaker 7: Yeah, like this hair episode, Yeah, one of the best, Yeah,
- 26:03Speaker 7: one of your best.
- 26:06Speaker 3: I mean that's.
- 26:07Speaker 4: Something I had completely forgotten about. And then when we
- 26:10Speaker 4: rewatched it and I was like, oh god, I can't
- 26:13Speaker 4: like it all came back like at once where I
- 26:16Speaker 4: was like, and I didn't remember the episode so much
- 26:18Speaker 4: as I remember just my my embarrassment of like them
- 26:25Speaker 4: trying to explain to me that, like I like this girl,
- 26:27Speaker 4: so I was gonna smell her hair, and I was like,
- 26:28Speaker 4: that is the creepiest, Like even at eleven, I was like,
- 26:32Speaker 4: that is creep You can't do that, you know.
- 26:35Speaker 3: But but yeah, there was.
- 26:39Speaker 4: I think so overall, I've been pleasantly surprised.
- 26:43Speaker 7: But I think it's fun too, because I mean it's
- 26:46Speaker 7: fun and the fact that we're like watching some of
- 26:50Speaker 7: these very awkward moments that were like on national television,
- 26:54Speaker 7: but there's also some there's sweetness to it, and there's
- 26:57Speaker 7: like that vulnerabil that we like shared with the world,
- 27:02Speaker 7: but like now that we're all parents and we're all
- 27:05Speaker 7: kind of looking at it through these different eyes being like,
- 27:08Speaker 7: oh my goodness, like is this what are some of.
- 27:10Speaker 2: Our future conversations are going to be about?
- 27:13Speaker 7: Like, but it it's I think it's been fun, and
- 27:17Speaker 7: it's also fun to see us all as babies.
- 27:19Speaker 9: Man, Like, yeah, it's like watching home videos honestly exactly,
- 27:26Speaker 9: but they're you know, better lit exactly.
- 27:31Speaker 1: That's so cool to have these like, yeah, these professionally
- 27:34Speaker 1: shot home movies basically of yourself.
- 27:36Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, like we.
- 27:38Speaker 5: Don't need any evidence of our childhoods. It's like right there,
- 27:41Speaker 5: immortalized forever, for.
- 27:44Speaker 6: The good or the bad.
- 27:46Speaker 5: Actually, but honestly, like, rewatching it for me has been
- 27:50Speaker 5: really cool because I was so young when these first
- 27:54Speaker 5: seasons were on, Like literally everything was over my head
- 27:58Speaker 5: figuratively and literally. But I'm just really really impressed with
- 28:04Speaker 5: the quality of the writing and the acting.
- 28:08Speaker 6: Like we've all.
- 28:10Speaker 5: Been voting Catherine like m VP of virtually every episode,
- 28:14Speaker 5: well not everyone, but most of them, And so it's
- 28:17Speaker 5: kind of like seeing a brand new show with brand
- 28:20Speaker 5: new with new eyes for me at least, because I
- 28:24Speaker 5: definitely didn't. I mean it was on like after an
- 28:26Speaker 5: hour after my bedtime for basically the whole time it
- 28:30Speaker 5: was on.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Something that like I hear from For example, the people
- 28:37Speaker 1: from Boy Meets World talk about like when they got
- 28:40Speaker 1: to a certain age, the writers were using things from
- 28:43Speaker 1: their real life to influence the show. Did that happen
- 28:46Speaker 1: for you guys? Did that? Did that happen on Seventh Heaven?
- 28:50Speaker 2: It did for it did for Lucy for sure.
- 28:53Speaker 7: In the first season of shooting Seventh Heaven, right after
- 28:59Speaker 7: we app one of my friends passed away in a
- 29:01Speaker 7: car accident and they actually ended up. Brenda talked to
- 29:05Speaker 7: me and asked me if we could make it into
- 29:08Speaker 7: an episode, which we ended up doing, which was nothing
- 29:11Speaker 7: in Doors but change, And they definitely took cues from
- 29:16Speaker 7: what we were experiencing in life and definitely put it,
- 29:22Speaker 7: you know, into the stories. That's where it was also
- 29:25Speaker 7: for us especially, I think for especially the kids on
- 29:29Speaker 7: the show, the connection between where our character characters ended.
- 29:36Speaker 2: And where we began was sometimes muddied.
- 29:40Speaker 7: So it's funny because a lot of people are like,
- 29:42Speaker 7: are you like Lucy, And I'm like, no, yes, a
- 29:46Speaker 7: lot like you know, I think there is. But I
- 29:50Speaker 7: think that's also because as Brenda got to know us better,
- 29:53Speaker 7: she wrote a lot of our personalities and our quirks,
- 29:56Speaker 7: like Lucy was always talking fast and she talked a
- 29:59Speaker 7: lot and choose a bit bossy.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Those are all kind of qualities that you know, I
- 30:03Speaker 2: may or may not have.
- 30:07Speaker 6: I definitely think too, especially when when you when you're
- 30:09Speaker 6: writing a show with that many characters, you can only
- 30:11Speaker 6: have each character so fleshed out when you start, like
- 30:16Speaker 6: the it's definitely going to be discover as you go
- 30:19Speaker 6: for writing, I would think, given, I mean, there are
- 30:23Speaker 6: so many people too in it, and they're young, and like,
- 30:25Speaker 6: how are they going to evolve? What are they going
- 30:27Speaker 6: to turn into? Because writing an.
- 30:29Speaker 5: Adult, yeah, they could be the same relatively the same
- 30:32Speaker 5: person for three five, seven seasons, but a kid is
- 30:38Speaker 5: going to be substantially different.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Absolutely. And so you guys are doing the like you've
- 30:44Speaker 1: done nineties con You've done these conventions and stuff and
- 30:46Speaker 1: like met fans and I mean even like rules that
- 30:52Speaker 1: aren't like your show was on for so long and
- 30:55Speaker 1: there's so much of you in these characters. I mean,
- 30:58Speaker 1: is it weird to me? Fans? And then they kind
- 31:01Speaker 1: of they have a hard time separating, like treating you
- 31:06Speaker 1: like the character. That must happen a lot of these things,
- 31:09Speaker 1: right or I mean, I.
- 31:10Speaker 7: Do think that there's obviously they've grown up with us
- 31:13Speaker 7: a certain way. So yes, there's this assumption that we're
- 31:16Speaker 7: very much like our characters, and I think in a
- 31:18Speaker 7: lot of ways we are, So I don't think it's
- 31:23Speaker 7: I don't think it's as weird. I think, if anything,
- 31:26Speaker 7: the I think the comments that all of us often
- 31:29Speaker 7: get is how like if you see us out in
- 31:31Speaker 7: the wild, people think like that they've.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Like either grown up with us, that they went to
- 31:36Speaker 2: high school.
- 31:39Speaker 7: There, and they always throw you in this awkward position
- 31:42Speaker 7: where you're like, no, I promise you I did not
- 31:45Speaker 7: go to your high school. When you went to my
- 31:47Speaker 7: prom with my cousin, I'm like, I did not go
- 31:50Speaker 7: to problem with your cousin. It's just that familiar face.
- 31:55Speaker 7: But it's also because our show was not you know,
- 31:59Speaker 7: we were in their homes and we felt like family
- 32:03Speaker 7: to them. So I think often what we find at
- 32:06Speaker 7: like nineties con is like people truly feeling like we
- 32:10Speaker 7: helped them through.
- 32:11Speaker 2: Their darkest days.
- 32:12Speaker 7: We were there through you know, death of their grandparents
- 32:17Speaker 7: or whatever they're going through, Like their connection to us
- 32:20Speaker 7: is much deeper, and it's a very to be honest,
- 32:25Speaker 7: we feel honored that they gave us this opportunity because,
- 32:31Speaker 7: to be honest, like without any of the fans, without
- 32:34Speaker 7: anybody watching our show, never would have made it those
- 32:37Speaker 7: eleven years, and we wouldn't be doing this podcast because
- 32:41Speaker 7: no one would want to listen. So we are eternally
- 32:44Speaker 7: grateful for all everybody's support through the years, right, what.
- 32:49Speaker 1: A special thing to like like a special way to
- 32:53Speaker 1: be part of people's lives too. I think about that
- 32:55Speaker 1: a lot. It's uh because again, like I'm sure people
- 32:59Speaker 1: could back and rewatch Seventh Heavens. It's a comforting show,
- 33:04Speaker 1: not unlike Gilmore Girls. Like as you're rewatching the podcast
- 33:08Speaker 1: or sorry, the show for the podcast, like the fans
- 33:12Speaker 1: are probably watching along with you, right, are you like
- 33:14Speaker 1: hearing from fans that are following along.
- 33:17Speaker 4: Yeah, so people in our audience will we'll rewatch the
- 33:22Speaker 4: episode that we're discussing.
- 33:24Speaker 3: We don't do the rewatch on the pod.
- 33:26Speaker 4: We usually we'll rewatch it like on our private time,
- 33:31Speaker 4: and then we come together to discuss the episode and
- 33:34Speaker 4: and and try to flesh out what it is that
- 33:38Speaker 4: we may or may not remember from that episode, if anything.
- 33:42Speaker 4: You know, which is which is kind of different depending
- 33:45Speaker 4: on you know, obviously we have our show always had
- 33:49Speaker 4: probably two tent pole episodes per season. You know that
- 33:52Speaker 4: we're like a bigger deal than the other episodes. You know,
- 33:55Speaker 4: we did a lot of those like very special Seventh
- 33:58Speaker 4: heaven events kind of thing, you know, And so you know,
- 34:03Speaker 4: our memories about specific episodes.
- 34:07Speaker 3: Kind of wane a little bit, you know, as we
- 34:11Speaker 3: go through.
- 34:11Speaker 4: But but I definitely have that experience with with fans
- 34:16Speaker 4: from the pot that there's I think all actors, but
- 34:20Speaker 4: particularly actors who are known for specific things. You can
- 34:25Speaker 4: you can kind of think of your fans as two
- 34:29Speaker 4: distinct groups. You have the fans of like the thing,
- 34:33Speaker 4: so the thing you're known for, and that's what they love.
- 34:36Speaker 4: And so in that way, those fans are really coming
- 34:38Speaker 4: to see the character that they love, you know, like
- 34:41Speaker 4: those are fans of Simon, those are fans of the family,
- 34:44Speaker 4: those are Seventh Heaven fans, you know, as opposed to
- 34:48Speaker 4: fans who like maybe a couple of things that you're in,
- 34:53Speaker 4: who follow your work across different things, and and so
- 34:56Speaker 4: then in that case they're because they've seen you and
- 35:00Speaker 4: different skins, so to speak, they kind of are are
- 35:03Speaker 4: more they peer through the veil a little bit more,
- 35:07Speaker 4: you know. But but you get both of those experiences
- 35:11Speaker 4: when you when you interface with fans at the cons.
- 35:14Speaker 4: And it's where I think, again, we're really lucky because
- 35:18Speaker 4: of the nature of our show. We have such a
- 35:22Speaker 4: wholesome and happy fan base. You know that they grew
- 35:25Speaker 4: up on our show and and took that a lot
- 35:28Speaker 4: of value from it, and so that, you know, that
- 35:32Speaker 4: makes our interactions really trend positive.
- 35:36Speaker 1: You know that's great, Like, yeah, you're not gonna have
- 35:38Speaker 1: like too many like rowdy Seventh Heaven fans.
- 35:41Speaker 3: Exactly exactly right, technically.
- 35:45Speaker 1: So there's a Seventh Heaven reboot. I just saw that
- 35:49Speaker 1: that's been announced. Are you guys involved at all? What
- 35:53Speaker 1: can you tell me about this?
- 35:54Speaker 6: No?
- 35:54Speaker 1: No, not, okay, we knew.
- 35:59Speaker 3: It existed, but that's about it.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. So, uh, if if you were to if
- 36:07Speaker 1: you guys were to do a reboot and like like
- 36:09Speaker 1: or continue the story, is that something you'd be interested
- 36:13Speaker 1: in doing? Would you want to play those characters again?
- 36:16Speaker 1: Are there more stories to tell? What do you think
- 36:18Speaker 1: about that?
- 36:19Speaker 4: I mean, it's something that was floated at different points
- 36:23Speaker 4: in over the years, So I think we've all kind
- 36:27Speaker 4: of considered that question, you know before.
- 36:32Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I think the reason.
- 36:34Speaker 4: Why they're they're doing it the way that they're doing
- 36:37Speaker 4: it is because it's been so long and at this point,
- 36:41Speaker 4: I think really they want to take the the heart
- 36:45Speaker 4: of the show, like the kind of the mission of
- 36:48Speaker 4: the of our show to uh, to explore you know,
- 36:54Speaker 4: kind of family and social values in a family context
- 37:00Speaker 4: and just modernize it, you know what I mean, just
- 37:02Speaker 4: really kind of take that mission and and do the
- 37:07Speaker 4: you know whatever that whatever the twenty twenty five version
- 37:10Speaker 4: of that is, which admittedly should look very different, you know,
- 37:14Speaker 4: than than than how our show looked back in ninety six. So,
- 37:20Speaker 4: you know, I think it's probably at this point the
- 37:25Speaker 4: right decision, you know, for for bringing back you know, uh,
- 37:31Speaker 4: the Seventh Heaven brand, so to speak.
- 37:34Speaker 1: I know that. I mean that sounds great, and I'm
- 37:37Speaker 1: whatever this reboot ends up being, you know, we're excited
- 37:40Speaker 1: about it. But if people want to relive the show
- 37:45Speaker 1: with with you guys with the Camdens, they should be
- 37:48Speaker 1: catching up with the Camdens. Is that every week? Is
- 37:50Speaker 1: that coming up?
- 37:51Speaker 2: We're every other week? We're uh yeah, we're every other
- 37:57Speaker 2: week because that's what we can manage right now.
- 38:02Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, I get it, I get it.
- 38:04Speaker 3: We are as often as we can be at the moment.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Yeah, Before I let you guys go, I do want to, like,
- 38:11Speaker 1: we're gonna step into Luke's Diner here for a second,
- 38:13Speaker 1: are you any of you guys coffee drinkers. Do you
- 38:15Speaker 1: guys like to drink coffee? Yes? Okay, well okay, let's
- 38:20Speaker 1: let's go around the room here. How do you each
- 38:22Speaker 1: take your coffee? I'm writing this down.
- 38:25Speaker 4: I drink oat milk lattes with sugar free vanilla, and
- 38:29Speaker 4: we make them at home. We have a little espresso
- 38:32Speaker 4: machine and so we make our own coffee.
- 38:34Speaker 3: Seana and I love it.
- 38:36Speaker 2: I'm an oat vanilla latte as well.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Easy.
- 38:41Speaker 6: I'm just a latte, although I've been making cold brew
- 38:44Speaker 6: iced coffees with oat milk recently, but normally it's regular
- 38:47Speaker 6: milk and hot coffee or espresso, no sweetener.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Mac likes it.
- 38:54Speaker 3: Just Mac is sweet enough.
- 38:58Speaker 7: Yes, she already has in our coffee.
- 39:05Speaker 1: You guys rule so much. Thank you again for taking
- 39:09Speaker 1: the time to do this. It's been so great getting
- 39:11Speaker 1: to know you and again catching up with the Camden's.
- 39:13Speaker 1: Listen to their podcast everybody, It's so much fun, and
- 39:17Speaker 1: thanks again thanks for being part of Seventh Heaven. Also,
- 39:19Speaker 1: just as a fan, Wait.
- 39:20Speaker 6: What's coffee order? I want to know what your coffee is?
- 39:23Speaker 1: Oh my god, Well get this black hot and black.
- 39:30Speaker 3: Old school.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Yes, because I'm a badass.
- 39:33Speaker 3: You know that is that is pretty bad.
- 39:35Speaker 6: Ass, exactly what I would have guessed.
- 39:38Speaker 1: All right, thanks again, you guys so much. This has
- 39:42Speaker 1: been so much fun.
- 39:43Speaker 8: Thank you for having me, Thanks very much for inviting us.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Everybody, and don't forget follow us on Instagram at I
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